The Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium
and Cotton Pickers Ball
Now accepting abstracts • Deadline: September 7, 2012 for Symposium on October 11; groundbreaking for the cottonpickers monument at Mound Bayou on October 12 and a cottonpickers ball at Missisippi Valley State Unviersity on October 12, 2012.
Conference website: www.khafreinc.org
Plan now to join us in Itta Bena on October 11 and 12, 2012
at Mississippi Valley State University for the first annual Khafre, Inc., “Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom” symposium and “Cotton-Pickers Ball.”
Khafre, Inc is all about building out monumental projects that allow reflection, reconnection, and renewal — a
day of stimulating discussion about leading-edge research, innovative practices, and foundational values that concludes with a good-old-fashioned “black-tie” (or period piece
costumes) affair.
This year Khafre, Inc in conjunction with Mississippi Valley State University shall organize the USA’s premier interdisciplinary professional meeting on cotton,
sharecropping, and its cultural significance. By these three overlapping terms we mean a broad array of topics, both “cultural” and “economic,” managed by different entities
under a variety of designations:
• National parks at all levels: federal, state/provincial, county, and city
• Culture; the visual and performing arts, including music, dance, tapestry,sculpture and paintings
• historic, archaeological, and other cultural sites; cultural landscapes
• research areas and designated locations
• areas and sites; sacred burial sites, cotton fields, shotgun homes and jook joints
• private land-plantations
Want to share your work, your ideas, and your ideals with the larger academic and cultural communities? The “Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom” symposium is the place to do it. We invite abstracts from people who want to:
• present a Research Paper
• present a Poster
• present an Exhibit
• organize a Workshop
• organize a Business Meeting
• organize a Sharing Circle
This wide variety of options makes for an exciting, diverse program. To submit an abstract, email sade@khafreinc.org. The deadline is September 7, 2012.

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